Do you believe in any urban legends?

I just read about the shadow people legend and it actually happened to me a long time ago. So basically the legend is that all these people wake up in the middle of the night and they see this figure of a man in their room, but its not a man, its like nothing but shadow. A lot of people see them moving across their room or even go right up to them. When it happened to me, it was just standing there staring at me. It was the scariest fucking thing thats ever happened to me. I cried to be honest

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Could you move at all? Were you stuck to the bed like you were being held down? If so, then you might have experienced sleep paralysis, and that shadow figure you witnessed could just be the hallucination you saw because you've already heard of that urban legend before you went to bed. I suggest you go read more about sleep paralysis because lots of other people had the exact same experience you have. Other people may have experienced it a little differently, but the effects of all of those experiences basically boil down to the same phenomenon.

When I woke up I was facing the other way and I had to turn around before I saw it, so I was able to movePlus I didn't hear about the legend before hand. I just read the story tonight. And it happened to me a little less than a year ago.

@JustinTheGreatWell, you should try and see why that happens. Try searching for some legitimate explanations on this thing you've experienced because it sounds different from what I originally thought was sleep paralysis.